Re: Conlang Typology Survey

I'm curious about the distribution of the types of conlangs on this list.
So, a survey. Maybe it will generate some on-topic discussions. Answer it
for your respective conlangs:

multiple choices can be selected for any of these questions if that makes
sense for your conlang.

Language: Sohlob

1. morphological type
a. agglutinative
b. fusional/inflecting

2. Word order
c. VSO
d. VOS

Actually verb-patient-agent

3. adposition/noun order
a. noun - preposition

actually no adpositions, but case endings

4. adjective/noun order
b. noun - adj

5. genitive/noun order
b. noun - genitive

6. relative clause/noun order
b. noun - rel. clause

7. main verb/aux verb order

no aux verbs (yet)

8. adverb/verb order
b. verb - adv

9. compounding type
a. head-last compounding

10. case type
b. ergative/absolutive
d. other

active

11. tense system
b. aspect

12. script
a. latin
c. con-script
con-script not yet satisfactorily designed...

and some free answer questions:

13. number of genders/noun classes

1

14. number of cases

many

15. number of phonemes

30

16. lexicon size

1283 verb roots + c:a 2000 derivatives.  Bound to grow.



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